a running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter;also: a small decorative design or picture so placed

a picture (as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper

the pictorial part of a postage stamp design as distinguished from the frame and lettering

a short descriptive literary sketch

a brief incident or scene (as in a play or movie)

On a day where my chronological writer’s brain has not been functioning, I have written little one-shots from the POV of one of my characters. Sometimes my mind can’t think at all and I’m stuck in reality so I will write vignettes of my life that day.

This week has been a week where reality has struck me cruelly. So in the face of reality, I wrote.

(Photo credit to: me, K.A. Werts)

As follows, “The Waiting Room” (written on Thu 2/25 at 9:41pm):

“The floors clash and stripes of varying earth tones fail to hide the grime and scratches upon their surfaces.

Limbs stretch and muscles roll as we try to stay awake in the humid air.

The bitter smell of a tube of hell floats in through the open hallway saturating the room and turning our stomachs.

I swallow the bile that threatens to rise in my throat…

I will not be sick…

I have to stay strong for him.

The fact that this hospital has always held my fears in its bleached white walls cannot overwhelm me now.

I have conquered this horrid beast before and I shall do it once more!

For love!

After all, for love anything is possible.

Great foes shrivel in the face of true love.”

When the famed Writer’s Wall hits you what tactics have you used to conquer it? Has life ever caught up with you, too?